Alright people, let's do this one last time
Chapter 1.
It begins when it should end.
There aren't many thoughts in his head as he falls, except the absolute certainty that Miles will triumph no matter what he faces, and the indescribable (and strange) pride he feels for that boy. His last moments in that universe, far from the intrusive and useless worries that usually plague his mind, are dedicated to the kid who has done so much for him without knowing it.
Peter already irretrievably misses him (will there be any way to see him again without fucking the multiverse?).
The smile of Miles stays with him when he submerges in the ocean of fast and furious colors that's the portal, in the not so distant sounds that he recognizes belong to his New York, and it's not until that moment that he listens to his city call him that he realizes how much he longs to be back home, how terrified he was of dying in a universe that wasn't his, of not being able to apologize to MJ. God, he loves that child so much for giving him this opportunity, he is almost in ho-...
Peter's spider sense sends him a warning.
There are no enemies or threats in sight, there is nothing to fight or protect against, nothing that he can recognize and haven't seen on his previous journey, everything is as he remembers it was, and although that should mean that in theory It will be fine, although he would like to believe that his spider sense is slightly damaged by the dimensional trips, Peter only knows that things just got a little more complicated.
He goes through the portal.
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He crashes face into a building. Again.
Peter was waiting for his bed, so the building is an unexpected surprise and nothing welcome, one that lets him know he isn't where he should be. An advertising of a product, familiar but not at the same time, that he has the opportunity to observe when he falls to the streets of New York only indicates that it's not even in his universe.
He release a moan of infinite suffering. Damn, at this point he should know better than to believe it would be so easy to go home; bad luck goes after the Spider-People.
It's thinking about the other arachnid people that forces him to venture into the crowded city, perhaps one of the others runs with his same luck and is with him in ... the dimension in which he is?
In any case, it's not difficult to find the same outfit that he wore in the other universe, he finds it even in the same place. Miles and Gwen may say that his recently acquired clothes make him look like a homeless, but it's been a long time he stopped worrying about how others looked at him, and truth be told, no one pays attention to a homeless when he enters places that he shouldn't, also it fulfills its primordial necessity: to cover his suit of Spiderman, which in other words means that it's the perfect garment.
His atoms become rebellious a couple of times while navigating a New York similar to his own, and it's at the end of one of the glitch when he sees the news on a public television. There is a story about the Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man and his most recent heroic act, about him (seems to be a he, even he bets that he's a Peter Parker too based on the suit almost identical to his) promising to investigate, uh, something that he can't understand.
The original vigilante of this universe would probably know the reason why he is in this one, assuming that his stay isn't the product of an error with the Collider of the dimension of Miles. Or, if not, anyway it would be vital to have the other arachnid on his side for his return home, he only knows. Also, if one of the others ran the same fate and was sailing through that place, it was pretty sure that they would also go after the guy who swings.
Locating Spider-Man seems to be the way to go.
(It has nothing to do with having some curiosity about who wears the mask in this place).
However, locating the Spider-man of this dimension is more difficult than he likes to admit, for four days he searches under each stone for the elusive vigilante to the point that almost leads him to think that the earth swallowed him up. Not daring to visit Aunt May's house again or MJ's because feelings that he isn't willing to evaluate right now threaten at the idea of approaching either of them, the only places where looking for the spider are reduced to all own favorite sites to waste time and crime scenes when they fail, which ends up being useless.
The Amazing Spider-Man doesn't appear in any crime, neither the smallest nor the biggest, and that alone is enough to put him on edge.
Perhaps in his own universe Peter ignored the calls for help, but the influence of Miles and the others was strong enough to make him care (it's also fucking hard to ignore something when it happens right in front of you).
Against all sense of self-preservation, ignoring his tired bones, Peter B. Parker throws off his coat and puts on his mask; save the city while looking in the crowd for the original spider of this dimension.
Where is he?
When he begins to think that maybe he should visit Aunt May after all, his brain decides to give him a way out that he hadn't considered: chasing the bad guys for information. It wouldn't be so strange that the other Spider-Man was trying to save the city (or the world) from something big enough to get his attention, which would explain his absence; sometimes the villains become ambitious. Maybe he is looking for / stealing information, infiltrated somewhere? It's possible. It's also an option that the problem of colliders and Fisk is repeated in this place, but he will ignore that, it will not complicate his life thinking about it.
(Parker sends to the back of his mind the other option that opens for him: that this dimension no longer has a Spider-Man).
Following dangerous criminals seems to be a good way to know where his counterpart is. KingPin, as big and threatening as he is, is terrible to know when he has a pursuer, his bodyguards are even worse, even if the persecutor uses a red-blue spandex that screams "Look at me!". This is how Peter, Spider-Man from other dimension, finds himself behind one of his great enemies, following him, to his secret lair or whatever, under the Fisk Tower itself.
(There are warning bells ringing loudly in his head, but Peter keeps ignoring , it's just a coincidence, probably every Fisk in the multiverse does his villain stuff under the tower, the location doesn't mean he's trying to collapse dimensions, nope).
And then, because that's the luck he has, he is looking at another supercollider that he had wanted so much to ignore; He doesn't know if he feels surprised or resigned. Sure, the device is ideal for returning it to his home, but it also means he has work as a hero to do because, ugh, it's assumed that he shouldn't let dimensions collapse.
Anyway, it is, however, the view of the Green Goblin and the Prowler holding a confrontation with the arachnid man who he was looking for what leads him to be surprised at the end.
If he is sincere, he didn't expect his plan to work, he even saw himself going to Aunt May's house for help, but the unexpected success in his mission sends him a sense of pride.
Lasts few time.
From the ceiling where he is stuck, just above Fisk, hidden in the shadows, with his eyes follows the brief and brutal battle that his counterpart faces, vaguely interested. There was a time when he could move as well as that guy, but when you have more than two decades in this job, you tend to replace the ostentatious and dramatic movements with others that do not make your back hurt the next day.
Whatever it is, Peter briefly considers joining the fight and helping the guy, but in the end he gives up on the idea, fighting with the Green Goblin is exhausting even on his best days, and obviously the other has the situation controlled, it doesn't matter how much the opposite seems to the untrained eye, Peter, as the expert who doesn't feel like being beaten, knows that everything is fine. At least until he sees Norman hold Spider-Man in the middle of the collider, until he sees and feels the resulting explosion.
His spider sense is conveniently effective in warning him of the explosion and its dangers, but it also makes him take seriously the situation in which he finds himself, enough to get involved.
When the debris and the dust settle, Peter makes the abrupt decision to leave the building quickly, preferably with a spider over his shoulder. Red and blue isn't hard to find among blacks, grays and browns, but the sight that greets him in doing so forces him to wince in sympathy, it is obvious even from afar that the other hero took a hard hit from the explosion.
B. Parker soon finds himself in the air, swinging to the other Spidey with the firm intention of taking him away from the Fisk property, when an impossible sight makes him stop, when disbelief forces him down.
His feet touch the ground at a distance still far from his original destination, but this is truly the last thing that matters to him.
Because there, in front of the Spider-Man of this dimension, is Miles.
No no no no.
Peter's mind panics as his gaze falls on the child he thought he had left behind, that he thought he would never see again.
His thoughts overwhelm him, they run quickly through his mind trying to understand all the information that begins to accumulate, come together and give shape to something that really doesn't have time to understand right now. He feels shaking, and maybe he's breathing too fast? Damn it, put your shit together, Parker, this is not the time to be overwhelmed.
Breathe deeply; he wasn't prepared to see Miles, not so soon, not when he was getting used to the idea that he wouldn't see him again, but if he could handle a reunion with Aunt May and MJ, he should be able to handle the kid.
He will be able, there isn't other option; He has work to do.
With determination, he leaves in the back of his mind every thought that could be an obstacle. There is a conversation going on between the other Spider-Man and the kid, one that he's not able to hear but can almost imagine when he sees his other self send the brat away, when his spider sense triggers one warning after another. There is no doubt that there is an idiotic plan in the head of the downed hero, something very disinterested and noble, totally brave, which of course will have something to do with self-sacrifice, and that's a no-no. Peter didn't spend days looking for the spider of the dimension for him to decided to go ahead with an idiotic plan.
KingPin and his henchmen are coming, and yeah, it seems it's time to intervene.
He throws himself into the air.
Notes: So ... I have no idea what I'm doing.
I apologize if this has spelling or grammatical errors, i'm not a native speaker and could have made mistakes, and if so, i would appreciate it if you could tell me.
Either way, thanks for reading! Comments are appreciated!